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Wallkill Valley Times, Wednesday, January 27, 2016
IN THIS ISSUE
Calendar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Classifieds. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Crossword. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Dining Guide. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Letters to the Editor. . . . . . . . . . 8
Maybrook. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Montgomery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Obituaries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Opinion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Pine Bush. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Police Blotter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
School News. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Service Directory. . . . . . . . . . . 36
Sports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Walden.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Wallkill. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Walker Valley. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
PUBLIC AGENDA
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27
Town of Crawford Planning Board, 7
p.m. , Crawford Town Hall, 121 State Rt
302, Pine Bush.
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1
Village of Walden Planning Board
Work Session, 7:30 p.m. Village Hall,
1 Municipal Square.
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 2
Walden Village Board of Trustees,
6:30 p.m. Village Hall, 1 Municipal
Square.
Town of Shawangunk Planning
Board, 7 p.m. Town Hall, 14 Central
Ave., Wallkill
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Valley Central loses $900,000+ in state aid
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“I’m just as surprised as you are,”
Raymond said to board members when
they asked if anyone had been overseeing the filing of six reports to the state
Education Department. Raymond said
that a total of 12 reports are required to
be sent each year – ranging from financial
reports to audits - and that only six of the
12 had been filed.
“As soon as I get Brad [Conklin, board
president] and John [Xanthis, interim
superintendent]’s signatures, they’ll be
ready to go,” Raymond added.
Board member Rod Freeman asked if
the failure to file was noted by an external
audit, and if not that, why the district’s
internal audit didn’t pick up on it.
Conklin said former Superintendent
Richard Hooley, who left in September
to take a job with Dutchess BOCES, had
noted in a “management letter” that
the reports weren’t filed. Conklin didn’t
explain why action wasn’t taken at that
time.
The revelation comes at a time when
the state is allowing tax levies in next
year’s school district budgets to surpass
last year’s tax levy by only 0.12 percent.
Finding the money to replace the lost aid
could crush next year’s budget, Freeman
feared. Already, the d